Intro to Middle Neighborhoods

Justin Elszasz, Mayor’s Office of Innovation

Sunday, February 22, 2019

source("../src/00_initialize.R")

library(leaflet)
library(knitr)
hmt <- load_block_group_data(load.cache = T)
## 19:44:07: Attempting to load cached data.
## 19:44:07: File at: C:/Users/justin.elszasz/Code/middle_neighborhoods_analysis/data/raw/hmt/hmt_join_acs.rds
## 19:44:07: HMT data succesfully loaded.
hoods <- get_neighborhood_boundaries()
## 19:44:07: Getting neighborhood boundaries from Open Baltimore @ 
## https://data.baltimorecity.gov/resource/h3fx-54q3.geojson
## Warning in readLines(con): incomplete final line found on 'https://
## data.baltimorecity.gov/resource/h3fx-54q3.geojson'

Housing Market Typology

The Housing Market Typologies

Our Middle Neighborhoods

Breaking “middle” into “lower middle” (F, G, H) and “upper middle” (D, E) and including “healthy” and "distressed:

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Income levels in our middle neighborhoods are well below area’s

Middle neighborhoods have more older homeowners

hmt.tier Mean % Homeowners 65+ Median % Homeowners 65+
distressed 14.0% 12.6%
healthy 11.9% 9.87%
lower middle 17.2% 15.2%
upper middle 16.8% 15.0%

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